The attack is that process by means of which you remove obstructions.
What makes greatness is starting something that lives after you.
A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves
Faced with the immensity of the universe, Job realized that there are limits to man's rationalizing, that we cannot find where the cloud of sorrow starts, that all our boasted knowledge is but an island in the vast ocean of mystery, and as the island of knowledge grows larger, the shore line of mystery becomes longer. At the end of his wits, he surrendered in trust to a Higher Wisdom.
The test of our religion is whether it fits us to meet emergencies. A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.
The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.
Almost everybody in the neighborhood had troubles, frankly localized and specified; but only the chosen had complications. To have them was in itself a distinction, though it was also, in most cases, a death warrant. People struggled on for years wit
Each book is a mind alive, a life revealed, a world awaiting exploration, but living people are all those things, as well—and more, because their stories haven’t yet been completely told.
I've always thought that bartenders and hairstylists would be great interrogators because all day long they have to listen to people talk. They could probably make some fugitive spill the beans.
That kind of ball is meat and two drink for the Palace defence.